Doubutsu no Kuni
14

Jyu, Beast, Freedom

Now, after a brief break of... fuckin' 2 years... let's continue!Here's the end of volume 4.

[Doubutsu no Kuni 14 Translation by Kewl0210]Page 145:Title: Word.14 Jyu, Beast, FreedomT/N: "Jyu" is the name of the character. The word for beast here is read "Jyuu" and the word for freedom is "Jiyuu".

Page 146:Jyu: Nice.I really like you.Come on.Don't you want to crush me with those fangs?

Page 148:Jyu: Not good. I'm not dead.You couldn't kill a tiny creature like me in one attack?Wolf: !!SFX: ZAZAZAZAZAJyu: You.You've got the best eyes.Do you really not have a problemwith being an underling to these guys?

Page 149:Jyu: The boss always gets first dibs on prey, right?So there must also be times when there isn't much prey and you can't even eat.Nor can you mate with the females you're enamored by.Take a look. This guyis scared.What about you? Are you scared?You certainly seem fine.You're stronger than the boss.

Page 150:Jyu: You should be the one to kill me.Not that coward.Wolves: GYAU!!GYAUUU!!VOU VOU!!GYAIIIIIIIN!!!SFX: BAKUN

Page 151:SFX: HYOOOOOOOOOOSFX: BUHSFX: BASHAAAAAAASFX: GAH

Page 152:SFX: ZURURIWolf: Ga...Ga...Jyu: Nice, isn't it?To bear your fangs whenever you feel like it?Eat the things you want to eat...SFX: FUH FUH FUHJyu: When you were eating meyou had the best look on your face.I really lovelooking at faces like that!

Page 156-157:Guys: All riiiiiight!!The "bridge" is doooone!!!SFX: WAAAAAAAAAADan: Dad! Tarouza! Is it okay if I cross it?Bull: Yeah.Taro: It's okay to now.SFX: KAKAHDan: UWAA!Dad, look, looK! The river is below me!!Woah!! I could never get to that spot on that side before!! Now I can even go past it!Dad: Yeah!Don't go too far, now!SFX: KOKO KOKO KONDad: ............Tarouza, you allowed us to make somethin' pretty good.

Page 160:Jyu: That monkey had some good timing, blowing that whistle.Now I can talk to you without anyone interrupting.

Page 161:Guys: Meyoshi!!Meyoshi!!What happened? Is something wrong?Meyoshi: Uh...Sorry... Not only was I bitten, but they hid my flute......I was just finally able to blow it...Tarouza's in danger.That guy is already heading to where Tarouza is.That guy... is dangerous.And scary...He's so scary...SFX: GATA GATA GATA GATA GATA GATATaro: What... did you do to the guard monkey?!Jyu: He's fine. I let him live.

Page 163:Tarou: W-Whaaaat?!!This boy... How could he just say that out of the blue......?Jyu: I discovered this village a little while ago.There are different species living together and getting along here.I hate that.The one who set this up,is you, the one who can talk to all animals, right?Tarou: Is there any problem with that?!Other animals being able to understand each other is a happy thing!!Jyu: Understand each other? Yeah, right.Even in this buddy-buddy state their in is just on the surface.Tarou: It's not just on the surface!!Someday, animals that eat meat will be able to get along with them, too!!Jyu: Animals that eat meat?You're saying that animals that eat plants and animals that eat meat will get along?

Page 164:Jyu: So you're saying you'll tell animals that eat meatnot to eat meat?Tarou: Th-That's right, but...Jyu: So the plant eating animals can eat whatever they want,but the meat eating animals aren't allowed to eat meat?!What kind of friendliness is that?!How could you not feel bad for the meat-eating animals?!Tarouza!!!You truly are not needed in this world!!!

Page 167:Jyu: This world is built on the foundation of killing and eating one another.SFX: BOTA BOTA BOTATATarou: Yeah!! But I don't think the side that get's eatenwas born in order to become food!!!Or where strong animals end up as the ones killed, either!I want a world different from this eat or be eaten world!!Jyu: But you see, that's no fun.If you obey the world and enjoy the rule of "eat or be eaten", you won't have any regrets.Tarou: Enjoy?Jyu: Kill what you hate, eat what you want to eat, and do what you want to do.If you just learn to like that, then even if you end up on the eaten side, you can "accept" it.SFX: GIRI GIRI GIRI GIRI GIRI

Page 168:Jyu: "I kill and eat, too. And that's fun.""So is there anything to regret about being eaten?"... That's what I mean.Plant eating animals are the same as well.If they don't want to be eaten by meat-eating animals, they just need to get other, weaker, animals eaten in their place.Then they surviveand eat delicious things to a full belly.And make the females they like, theirs.Only those that live honest to their own desiresare those that respect this thing called life.That is the correct, bestmost beautiful world.Understand, Tarouza?

Page 172:Animals: U OH!! [Leave the original text here are put this in the margins.]Tarou: Everyone......Jyu: Hmoh.Fools.If you make one move, this bull's head goes flying.

Page 173:Guys: Damn...Guh...Jyu: While we're at it,if you want this bull to live, follow my conditions.Kurokagi: Yeah, we'll let you escape.Just make that dog take its fangs off that bull's neck.Jyu: Escape?Don't screw around.You.Yeah, you.You're this bull's child, right?

Page 175:SFX: BUSHUDan: Daaaaaaad!!!SFX: GABUUUTarou: Gu...Uuuuh.SFX: GIRI GIRIStop!! I won't let you kill him!!!Jyu: Yes, just like that!You'll take another life in order to save your family.

Page 176:Jyu: That is the true nature of an animal.The beautiful, honest form.So what do you think, Tarouza?You're being killed by one of your so-called friends.Can you still say that all this isn't just on the surface?Momou: Dan!!Dan: Uu~~~Momou: If you kill Tarouza,I won't consent to it.

Page 177:Momou: If you hadn't eaten the hay that Tarouza had madeyou might have died over the winter where we had no food.Jyu: That's old news.Right now, Dan wants his dad to live more than he does Tarouza.SFX: SU...SFX: ZUBUUMomou: UWAaAAAN!!!Dan: UWAaAAAN!!!Dad! Daaad!!Tarou: Stop it, Jyu!!Get those fangs off of Momouros!!!Momou: ............The cry...

Page 178:Jyu: ?Momou: It's a mysterious cry.Tarouza's cry...It's mysterious that he can talk to all animals with different cries.And beyond that... to bring happy ideas into our minds.Jyu: Happy things?Momou: Like "fields","cheese","hay","alcohol"...and "festivals".Talking to us about other animals' thoughts...In the form of his "cry"new things are entering our minds.

Page 179:Momou: The more I've talked with TarouzaI've been able to think in ways different from anything I've ever thought before.Even though we never knew about before,somehow, if it's through Tarouza's voice, we "can".Before I met TarouzaEating, sleeping, raising my child,and as you say, my own survival were all I thought about."That was all I could do".But now, I've made comrades.And become able to do all kinds of different things.Look.That is called a "bridge".

Page 180:Momou: We were able to build this gigantic thing.Isn't is incredible?We are......moving "forward".And "moving forward" isan unbelievably happy thing.I didn't just mean food.You brought us another, different, happiness.I want to let Dantalk more with Tarouza.

Page 181:Momou: I want him to talk with Tarouza a lot.And move further forward than I have.We're tired of the world you're talking aboutwhere you only care about your own survival!!!

Page 184:Momou: If we keep moving forward with you,I'm sure......you can become friends with meat-eating animals.SFX: ZAZAZAZAZAZAZAKuro: You'd better not expect to get out of this territory unscathed.Jyu: Ooh, ooh, ooh!!! Well aren't those are some nice anger-filled faces?!I love them.

Page 185:Jyu: Yo... Bull.You said before that you wanted to move forward?SFX: GARA GOSOJyu: Even if you do move forward, you won't be making friends with anybody.No matter how you struggle, the foundation of animals is "killing and eating each other".SFX: GURU GURU (Wrapping)Jyu: By killing each other,animals use their heads the mostSFX: CHA...Jyu: and attempt to move forward the most!!!SFX: FUUSFX: BONN

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Page 188:Jyu: The desire to "kill"is even involved in driving death to a forest.